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About 300 people have protested US Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Turkey, chanting: Biden get out. This country is ours. The demonstration occurred on the European side of Istanbul today, as Biden was on his way to a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the Asian side of...
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Obama urged Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform as he used his weekly address today to again defend his unilateral action shielding millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. I still believe that the best way to solve this problem is by working together - both...
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Biden assails Russian intervention in Ukraine as 'unacceptable': Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Kiev on Friday condemned Russia for its unacceptable' military intervention in Ukraine, while exhorting Ukraine's newly elected government to complete its democratic and...
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Police today recovered a bullet-proof vehicle among other items from the Ashram of godman Rampal in Barwala town of Hisar district. The recovery was made a day after a huge cache of arms and ammunition, petrol bombs, acid syringes were found from the highly-fortified complex. The details...
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At least seven militants were killed and 67 others arrested during raids by Egyptian Army in the restive North Sinai governorate, an army official said today. The raids were carried out on November 20-21, Army spokesperson Brigadier General Mohamed Samir said.
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The SAARC committee today decided to dissolve three regional centres, including one in India, and merge four others to end the duplication of work and reduce its budget. The 49th meeting of the programming committee comprises of joint secretaries of the SAARC countries.
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A strong 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit central Japan late today, the US Geological Survey said. The quake struck at 10:08 pm (1308 GMT), with its epicentre at a depth of 10 kilometres (six miles) in the north of Nagano Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, according to USGS and Japan Meteorological...
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Union Ministers Birender Singh and Suresh Prabhu have been nominated by BJP for bye-elections to two Rajya Sabha seats in Haryana. The two Ministers, who were inducted in the Union Cabinet following its expansion on October 27, are not members of Parliament. They are required to be an MP...
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National Security Advisor Ajit Doval today said India must engage with its neighbours--China and Pakistan--and build deterrence capabilities in a way that war does not remain a necessary option. At the same time, Doval called for a preparedness for a two-front war.
20:08
Kerry says gaps remain in talks about Iran's nukes: US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned of serious gaps in the talks about a nuclear deal with Iran, but as Monday's deadline approached his German counterpart said Tehran and six world powers have never been closer to agreement since...
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Residents of around 14 flood-hit villages in Desa belt of Doda and Ramban Assembly seats have threatened to boycott the state elections after the local administration allegedly failed to provide them free ration. We were promised free rations after the floods wreaked havoc on us and damaged...
19:08
Kenya bus killings claimed by Somali group al-Shabab: Gunmen from the Somali militant group al-Shabab say they have attacked a bus in northern Kenya, killing 28 people.The bus was travelling to the capital, Nairobi, when it was stopped in Mandera county, not far from the Somali border.Gunmen...
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'US-led strikes have killed 910 people in Syria': Air strikes by U.S.-led forces in Syria have killed 910 people, including 52 civilians, since the start of the campaign against Islamic State and other fighters two months ago, a group monitoring the conflict said on Saturday.The...
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A plague outbreak has killed 40 people on the island nation of Madagascar, with 119 people diagnosed with the bacterial disease since August. Two people have been diagnosed and one has died in the capital, Antananarivo. The World Health Organisation fears the plague outbreak may spread...
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A woman is died in a stampede in Uttar Pradesh's Badaun district during a blanket distribution event by MP Dharmendra Yadav.The event was organised as part of Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's 75th birthday celebrations.
17:29
Make Bangladesh feel 'heat of India' to stop infiltration: Dr Swamy K Anurag reports from Guwahati: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and MP, Dr Subramaniam Swamy today said that illegal migration from Bangladesh to Assam and other parts of India could be stopped only when...
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Make Bangladesh feel 'heat of India' to stop infiltration: Dr Swamy K Anurag reports from Guwahati: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and MP, Dr Subramaniam Swamy today said that illegal migration from Bangladesh to Assam and other parts of India could be stopped only when...
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A Correspondent: Taking serious note of the latest World Bank report that places India at 142nd spot out of 189 business-friendly countries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called upon officials to ensure that rules, regulations, terms of references and systems of delivery be simplified at the...
15:09
Faced with the daunting task of getting back black money stashed abroad, government today said it was having a relook at some of the bilateral tax treaties signed with foreign countries that may be hindering the repatriation of the money.Of course, we are, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in an...
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Around 500 guests were evacuated from a five-star hotel after a gas explosion in the basement caused part of the building to collapse, injuring 14 people.The Churchill Hyatt Regency hotel in Portman Square, central London, was evacuated following the explosion at around 11.40pm on Friday night...
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Criticising the way women are portrayed as a 'commodity' in the media, Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today called for self-regulation and urged stakeholders to exercise freedom of choice with a certain sense of discretion.You are encouraging a certain theme, a certain narrative, story,...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that he will solve the Kashmir refugee issue if Bharatiya Janata Party comes to power.I will solve problems of refugees that have been existing for 50 years, the prime minister said.While addressing an election rally in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar...
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Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has shared screen space with Sylvester Stallone in films like 'The Expendables' and 'Escape, today revealed that the two were each other's biggest enemies during the 1980s.Schwarzenegger, 67, said both the action stars competed with each other on all...
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Voicing confidence of a breakthrough in talks with Shiv Sena, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said it has been a friend of BJP and the two parties will remain friends in the future. Shiv Sena has always been a friend and in future we will be friends, Fadnavis said at the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today wished Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on his birthday and said he prayed for his long and healthy life.On Mulayam Singh Yadavji's birthday I extend my greetings to him and pray that he is blessed with a long and healthy life, Modi tweeted for the SP...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a public rally in Kishtwar on Saturday, days ahead of the assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir.Modi is scheduled to hold his first public rally in Kishtwar at around noon today, from where first phase of polling is scheduled to take place.The star...
10:30
Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Srinjoy Bose, who was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the multi-crore rupee Saradha scam on Friday, will be produced before a court on Saturday. A peeved West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress had yesterday...
10:30
An 18-member Indian team, led by Virat Kohli, today left for Australia to play in the four-match Test series starting at Brisbane from December 4. Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni will miss the first Test due to a right thumb injury and he is expected the join side from the second Test...
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Voting in 46 civic bodies, including six municipal corporations, in Rajasthan began at 7 am today, a state election commission official said. Over 63.09 lakh electors are eligible to cast their votes at 6,135 polling booths in 1,680 wards. 7,375 candidates are are in fray for the 46 civic...
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Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today asked US President Barack Obama to take up the Kashmir issue with the Indian leadership when he travels to India in January next year. Sharif made the request when Obama telephoned him, informing about his forthcoming India visit and discussing...
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After nearly 40 years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit, Ricky Jackson is now a free man.Jackson and two other men were convicted of a murder in 1975 that they did not commit. It was finally revealed this week when a lone eyewitness confessed that he lied. Read the story here
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There have been clashes in Mexico City, as thousands of people took to the streets to protest at President Enrique Pena Nieto's handling of the disappearance of 43 students.Protesters pushed away police in riot gear as they tried to round up demonstrators armed with molotov cocktails and...
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A hand grenade attack on a camp of Muttahida Qaumi Movement today left 20 people, including three parliamentarians, injured in this Pakistani port city.The hand grenade was thrown at the Muttahida Qaumi Movement camp in in Orangi Town area where a membership drive was going on, police said. Three...
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US President Barack Obama today telephoned Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and informed him about his forthcoming visit to India, as the two leaders discussed bilateral ties and the regional situation.The Pakistan prime minister's office said that President Obama informed Sharif of his...
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From the BBC: Eleven people have been killed in a stampede after a religious service in a stadium in Zimbabwe, police say.Four people died in the stadium in the central town of Kwekwe, while seven others were declared dead on arrival in hospital, they say.The stampede occurred as thousands of...
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From the CNN: NATO has scrambled fighter jets more than 400 times this year to intercept Russian military flights close to alliance members' airspace in Europe, the alliance's secretary general said this week.That's a 50 per cent increase in Russian air activity over last year and the kind...
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Rampal owned luxurious property, arms and ammunitionObama accepts Modi's R-Day invitation to be chief guestKashmir: Youth held by Army for lobbing grenade at election rallyEnd of the road for INS Vikrant: 14 things you should knowModi to hit campaign trail in J&K on SaturdayVillagers...
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Just hours after the White House confirmed that US President Barack Obama would be travelling to India in January, the State Department today announced that it will send a top diplomat to India next week to lay the ground work for the historic presidential visit.Assistant Secretary of State...
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